The Whittington Hospital

Name :

The Whittington Hospital

Address  :

Magdala Avenue

Town  :

London

State  :

Greater London

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

N19 5NF

Phone  :

020 7272 3070

Fax  :

020 7288 5550

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

arti.centralbooking@nhs.net

Description

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust is an acute general teaching hospital situated in Archway in the north of Islington We primarily serve the communities of north Islington and west Haringey a population of approximately 250000 people The hospital also treats a significant number of patients from Camden Barnet and Hackney We have 467 beds and employ over 2000 staff

The Whittington is one of the teaching hospitals of the University of London We provide clinical placements for undergraduates and we also have a large postgraduate training centre In addition we provide training for a wide range of other health professionals including nurses midwives radiographers and dieticians

History

Medical services have been delivered on the Whittington site since 1473 when a leper hospital was founded In 1848 a new hospital was built on the St Marys site to care for patients with smallpox during the period of epidemic

Independently managed hospitals were opened on the Highgate site in 1866 and the Archway site in 1877 In 1900 Highgate Hill Infirmary opened adjacent to the Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital The two hospitals soon amalgamated and the Smallpox Hospital was transformed into a nurses home

In 1946 the hospitals on all three sites were brought together The three hospitals had between them almost 2000 beds

With the coming of the National Health Service in 1948 they jointly became The Whittington Hospital and began to modernise The hospital is now on the central St Marys site and has 470 beds